From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] executing a command as a nologin user
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:59:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57855A24.8030906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160712223959.00003246@lxsbbs.eu>
On 12/07/2016 22:39, jens w wrote:
> Am Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:17:42 +0200
> schrieb wabe <wabenbau@gmail.com>:
>
>> jens w <jw@lxsbbs.eu> wrote:
>>
>>> .procmailrc
>>> :0 c
>>> * !^X-Loop: name@example.com
>>> | formail -X "From:" | $HOME/bin/script.sh
>>>
>>> procmail.log
>>> procmail: Executing " formail -X "From:" | $HOME/bin/script.sh
>>>
>>> for incoming mail, a script is executed. logfile has the same entry
>>> as it is in other users. but the script do nothing.
>>>
>>> How executing a command as a nologin user?
>>
>> Is script.sh readable and executable for the procmail user?
>>
>> Does script.sh contain a definition for a command interpreter
>> (something like #!/bin/sh)?
>
> yes and yes.
> it works for default user. it does not work for nologin user.
> as workaround I forward the mail to a helper-user, and process it there
>
>
does that nologin user have a mailbox? A real one, actually on the disk?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-12 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-12 1:47 [gentoo-user] executing a command as a nologin user jens w
2016-07-12 14:17 ` wabe
2016-07-12 20:39 ` jens w
2016-07-12 20:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-07-12 21:51 ` jens w
2016-07-12 20:59 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2016-07-12 21:58 ` jens w
2016-07-13 1:02 ` wabe
2016-07-13 10:31 ` jens w
2016-07-15 13:50 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-07-13 11:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-07-13 11:29 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-07-13 16:42 ` wabe
2016-07-13 16:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-07-13 17:05 ` wabe
2016-07-13 20:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-07-13 17:41 ` wabe
2016-07-14 21:19 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-07-15 1:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2016-07-15 13:45 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-07-15 14:20 ` Fernando Rodriguez
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